Building construction.



' PATENTED AUG. 23,1904.

No. 768,079. I

J; T. RYTHER. BUILDING OGNSTRUGTION.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

Patented August 23, 1904.

PATENT .OFFICE.

JAMES T. RYTHER, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,079, dated August23, 1904.

Application filed March 18, 1904- Serial No. 198,754. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES T. RYTHER, a citi-' zen of the United States,residing in Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Building Construction, ofwhich the fol-lowing is a specification.

This invention relates to buildings constructed principally of wood, andspecifically to the construction of the walls, floors, 'roofs, andpartitions thereof, as the principle of my improved construction isapplicable to any and all those portions of a building, although theinvention is especially intended for outer walls and roofs.

In some portions of the country many of thehouses, especially in smallcities and towns, are provided with walls in which thin overlapping ortongued-and-grooved boarding, known as siding, sheathing,weatherboarding, clapboarding, &c., is nailed to the joists or studdingof the frame. This thin material warps and bends, creating spaces oropen joints, so that it is often a very poor protection against cold. Insome instances sheets of paper are applied to the frame under thesiding; but these are apt to become torn, to sag, to be blown away, andto be affected by the rain and are hencezlshort-lived and of littleservice.

It is the object of my invention to provide an inexpensive means orstructure whereby the paper can be kept in place and held in shape whilein place, and thus the building rendered tight and warm.

In this invention I apply to the joists, studs,

' or framework ofsaid walls, floors, partitions,

or roofs a covering or layer of woven wire, screen-wire, wire-gauze, orthe style of wire known as chicken-fence or hen-fence, and then I coverthis layer of wire with sheets of building paper or felt, and finallyapply to the outer surface of the felt or paper the usual,

siding or sheathing. The building-wall therefore consists of the joistsor framework, the woven wire, the sheets of paper or felt, andthesiding, sheathing, or clapboarding.

The nature of the invention is fully described in detail below andillustratedin the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is anelevation of a part of a building-wall embodying my invention, portionsof the clapboarding and paper having been removed. Fig. 2 is a verticalsection taken on line 2, Fig. -1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section takenon line 3, Fig. 1. I

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

(4 represents the studs making a portion of the wall of an ordinarywooden building. Secured to the outer surfaces of said studs, by meansof staples b or other suitable contrivance, is a flat vertical sheet orlayer of woven wire 0. This layer or covering 0 of wire may be of anysize mesh or opening, whether termed wire-cloth or wire-gauze,.screen-wire or hen-fence, the intention being to use any style of wiremesh or sheeting which is provided with openings or holes produced byweaving, braiding, or crossing strands of wire. Next and outside thewire 0 is a layer (or layers) of paper or'cloth e, and outside the paperor cloth there are applied clapboard's g or other siding or covering.The paper therefore is provided with a stiif and firm backing of wire 0,and hence cannot sag or become torn, and the clapboards are thereforeprevented from opening at the joints, and hence the wind and rain areprevented from gaining access to the paper and tearing it or blowing itaway or rotting it. Thus an economical means is provided whereby abuilding-wall may be rendered tight, keeping out the cold air, rain, andsnow.

In illustrating this device in the drawings I have deemed it necessaryto show it only as applied to the wall of a building, the wire networkbeing secured to the studs 0, which are a portion of the frame. Thenetwork or wire screen, however, may be, with its sheets of paper orfelt, applied to anypartition or 'to a floor or roof, and any suitablenon-plastic covering may be applied in place of the clapboards g.

It is evident also that the wire screen, the cloth or felt sheets, and asuitable covering may be applied in the above-named order to either sideof the frame for employment in the construction of any of theabove-named parts of a building. In other words, this combination ofnetted wire and paper or felt may be used as a backing for boarding,siding, sheathing, paneled Wainseoting, ceilings, flooring, andanalogous coverings, and these coverings need not necessarily be ofWood, but may be of other material used in the construction of framelOUIldIHQS SUCl] as corrugated, stamped, or other sheet metal, tiles,glass, or coverings of any sheathing materialwhether applied to theouter or inner surfaces of walls, floors, roofs, or partitions.

In all the above-enumerated constructions the Wire netting or gauze issecured to the frame and operates as a firm, substantial, economical,and practically indestructible backing for the cloth or felt and itscovering.

In applying this invention to a roof the paper should be, of course,Waterproof.

Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In building construction, a frame, a network of Wire secured upon saidframe, a layer of Wind-resisting fabric, as paper or felt, superposedupon said network, and an outer covering of sheathing material suitablefor frame buildings, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES .l.. RYTHER.

\Vitnesses:

I'IENRY W. \VILLLms, A. K. H001).

